A woman walks past a mural depicting a white dove parachuting COVID-19 vaccine vials, posted near the Italian Health Ministry Headquarters in Rome, April 4, 2021. The pandemic is again roaring across parts of Western Europe, a prosperous region with relatively high vaccination rates and good health care systems but where lockdown measures to rein in the virus are largely a thing of the past. Italy, an early victim of the pandemic, has a high vaccination rate, but is also seeing numbers edge higher, which experts believe is due to vaccine efficacy wearing off. AP FILE PHOTO
A woman walks past a mural depicting a white dove parachuting COVID-19 vaccine vials, posted near the Italian Health Ministry Headquarters in Rome, April 4, 2021. The pandemic is again roaring across parts of Western Europe, a prosperous region with relatively high vaccination rates and good health care systems but where lockdown measures to rein in the virus are largely a thing of the past. Italy, an early victim of the pandemic, has a high vaccination rate, but is also seeing numbers edge higher, which experts believe is due to vaccine efficacy wearing off. AP FILE PHOTO

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